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I have been experiencing all sorts of problems with xp, including 5 minute
delay between appearance of desktop icons & taskbar - failure of taskbar
icons to function for a further 5 minutes or so, further failures to function
later in session and delays of several minutes before functions are carried
out (followed by a sudden burst of activity in which the last several minutes
of futile icon-clicking is activated) I ran all the standard stuff - virus
checks adaware, spybot but found nothing. Recently, more and more occurences
of both apps & windows components (explorer, mycomputer, search etc) going
into 'not responding'. Gradually the machine became more and more unusable.
Oh, at some point I think there had been some registry corruption because a
number of startup items were failing - file 'unprintable characters' could
not be found, but if I just hit enter, I could get past these and the machine
would appear to run ok, Eventually, as the machine worsened (over about 3
months) I decided to bite the bullet and reinstall windows. As I started the
install though, setup presented me with the option to "repair" the currently
installed copy of windows. "sounds good" I thought and took the option.
Setup checked my discs, copied files and announced it was restarting Windows
- still looking good! The Windows startup screen appeared, displayed the
animation.......and displayed the animation..... and displayed the animation.
That's it - it will no longer boot, normally, or in safe mode, or to last
good configuartion! wont boot at all - just sits there giving me the evil
eye! I should have taken a note of the last line displayed when trying safe
mode,. but forget! It displays about a screenful of info, line by line then
stops on a line that references something to do with "mups" and stays there
forever HELP!!!!! Idont know what to do! I would be really grateful, if
anyone has any clues if they could email me at
dragonflypc(ignorethisbitofdespammer!)@hotmail.com cos I'm not sure 'll find
my way back here again! Oh - I think I have nailed the original problems as
being related to a deteriorating hard drive (not the boot drive), so the
irony of all this is I probly never really needed to attempt the 'repair'
that killed it - disabling the corrupt (and apparently irrelevant startup
items) would probably have sufficed........
(sorry bout length but wanted to include all clues)
delay between appearance of desktop icons & taskbar - failure of taskbar
icons to function for a further 5 minutes or so, further failures to function
later in session and delays of several minutes before functions are carried
out (followed by a sudden burst of activity in which the last several minutes
of futile icon-clicking is activated) I ran all the standard stuff - virus
checks adaware, spybot but found nothing. Recently, more and more occurences
of both apps & windows components (explorer, mycomputer, search etc) going
into 'not responding'. Gradually the machine became more and more unusable.
Oh, at some point I think there had been some registry corruption because a
number of startup items were failing - file 'unprintable characters' could
not be found, but if I just hit enter, I could get past these and the machine
would appear to run ok, Eventually, as the machine worsened (over about 3
months) I decided to bite the bullet and reinstall windows. As I started the
install though, setup presented me with the option to "repair" the currently
installed copy of windows. "sounds good" I thought and took the option.
Setup checked my discs, copied files and announced it was restarting Windows
- still looking good! The Windows startup screen appeared, displayed the
animation.......and displayed the animation..... and displayed the animation.
That's it - it will no longer boot, normally, or in safe mode, or to last
good configuartion! wont boot at all - just sits there giving me the evil
eye! I should have taken a note of the last line displayed when trying safe
mode,. but forget! It displays about a screenful of info, line by line then
stops on a line that references something to do with "mups" and stays there
forever HELP!!!!! Idont know what to do! I would be really grateful, if
anyone has any clues if they could email me at
dragonflypc(ignorethisbitofdespammer!)@hotmail.com cos I'm not sure 'll find
my way back here again! Oh - I think I have nailed the original problems as
being related to a deteriorating hard drive (not the boot drive), so the
irony of all this is I probly never really needed to attempt the 'repair'
that killed it - disabling the corrupt (and apparently irrelevant startup
items) would probably have sufficed........
(sorry bout length but wanted to include all clues)